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fadelakin / vortex

a simple weather app for android
MIT License
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Add manual choice of location #4

Open tetris4 opened 9 years ago

tetris4 commented 9 years ago

Hello,

I have been looking for a forecast.io app in Fdroid for a while now and I was happy to discover vortex.

Can you please consider adding the option of manually choosing ones location, so location services don't have to be enabled to check and update the weather.

Also, how about the ability of saving locations, so one can check more than one location at any given moment.

Thank you in advance!

fadelakin commented 9 years ago

@tetris4 forecast.io uses your longitude and latitude to get the weather forecast. but i figure out a way to get the longitude and latitude from the city that the user inputs, then i'll add in the option of manually choosing ones locations. I'll also look into saving locations. I'm a beginner Android developer so I'm not where I need to be on all of this yet.

tetris4 commented 9 years ago

An alternative scenario would be for the user to input the city longitude/latitude code from forecast that corresponds to his city of interest. I have seen this happen with many desktop apps in Linux and a variety of weather providers.

For example: Add new city > Enter city longitude/latitude (e.g. 35.1667,33.3667) > Retrieve city (Nicosia,Cyprus)

I don't know however if this is possible through the API. =)